eli5 Why do countries differ on the side (left or right) the driver seat should be placed?
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In general, the driver is positioned on the left side of the car in countries that drive on the right side of the street, and on the right side of car in countries that drive on the left side of the street.
This is because drivers are more likely to make an error involving the side of the car that they’re further from, and accidentally straying onto the shoulder is normally not as catastrophic an error as accidentally straying into oncoming traffic.
See the other answers for why some countries drive on the right and others drive on the left.
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